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William Rowan

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British Field Marshal

Lived 1789 to 1879 · aged 90
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Field Marshal Sir William Shearman Rowan, was a British Army officer. He served in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against the Imperial Guard when he was wounded.

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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
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Field Marshal Sir William Shearman Rowan, was a British Army officer. He served in the Peninsular War and then the Hundred Days, fighting at the Battle of Waterloo and taking part in an important charge led by Sir John Colborne against the Imperial Guard when he was wounded. He later assisted Colborne in Colborne's new role as Acting Governor General of British North America during the rebellions by the Patriote movement in 1837. Rowan returned to Canada as Commander-in-Chief, North America in which role he made an important conciliatory speech in response to the burning of the Parliament Buildings in Montreal by an angry mob in April 1849.

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Lived 1789 to 1879 · aged 90
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